Logistics planning system is designed to cardinally refine the interaction coordination between different companies' employees, which participate in the process of forming, processing and delivering orders to company's dealers, and also to grant company's dealers the online access to the information on their orders progress - from the order's reception to the transfer of goods to dealer.

Logistics planning system consists of the next sections:

Warehouse and Delivery information - this section affords information on all the bills of parcels, that were billed to dealers. It permits dealers and account managers to overlook the relevant information on bills of parcels, which is updated automatically by means of synchronization with the accounting system, warehouses' and forwarders' systems. It also admits logistics to edit data on the planned shipment dates and bills of parcels delivery. The application provides a possibility for forwarders to update the delivery data.

Account card - this section yields full information on dealer's and company's mutual calculations, and is available to dealers and account managers for browsing relevant information.

Settings - this module admits users to correct field mapping in tables, enable or disable different notification types for every user. In this section the Administrator can manage the sending notifications system.

Files' import control - this section provides the next capabilities for the system administrator: download/addition files with the information on bills of parcels through the portal; examination data on files, which were not imported with the accordance of the detailed information about refusal of import (right here a file can be downloaded, updated and imported iteratively); searching information in the imported files.

Calendar - this section permits to setting holidays/weekend in the particular month/year to correct the automatic calculation of the planned shipment and deliveries of cargoes dates.

Adding/removal the bills of parcels manually - this section yields the capability to add the bills of parcels manually with different statuses (New, At warehouse, Packed, Ready for shipment) directly through the portal. It also permits to delete the earlier added bills of parcels.

Sending notifications - this section allows the logistics system administrator to setting the notifications' sending for different users. Also every user can enable/disable the mailing list of different types of notifications by e-mail.

Widget of operational information - In widget, which also displays on the user's virtual desktop, the information about the last synchronization time with the external informational systems and status of files sharing (Successful/Unsuccessful) is shown. If, while files sharing, files' import errors appear, it is possible to open, directly through widget, the section with information on not imported files.

The application provides the next roles for the company's employees: "Logistics Administrator", "Logistician" and "Account Manager".

"Logistics Administrator" role functionality:

Enable/disable the sending notifications system.

Files import.

Review the not imported files.

Setting holidays/weekend in the calendar.

Removal of the bills of parcels and their files.

Searching through imported files.

Managing routes.

"Logistician" role functionality:

Review the bills of parcels' information.

Uploading the bills of parcels' information file into xls.

Printing the bills of parcels' information.

Editing planned data of the bill of parcel delivery.

Updating forwarder for the bill of parcel.

Editing the bill of parcel delivery information.

Setting the fields to display in the Warehouse Info and Delivery sections.

Editing the date of the Good-transport waybill's receipt.

Adding the bills of parcels manually.

Selection of the message types for the Mailing list.

Setting the Mailing list for dealers and forwarders.

Setting holidays/weekend in the calendar.

Getting notifications by e-mail when the bills of parcels or their files processing are delayed.

"Account Manager" role capabilities:

Look through the information on the clients' bills of parcels.

Uploading the bills of parcels' information file into xls.

Printing the bills of parcels' information.

Review the clients' account cards.

Uploading the information file on the client card's transactions into xls.

Printing the information on the client's transactions from his card.

Setting fields to display in the Warehouse Info and Delivery sections.

The application provides the next roles for the dealer companies' employees: "Forwarder" and "Dealer".

"Forwarder" role capabilities:

Review information on the bills of parcels which were appointed for delivery.

Setting fields to display in the Warehouse Info and Delivery sections.

Getting notifications by e-mail while the bill of parcel's status being updated to "Ready for shipment" or while staying with this status for too long.

"Dealer" role capabilities:

Review information on the own bills of parcels.

Review the account card.

Setting fields to display in the Warehouse Info and Delivery sections.

Getting notifications by e-mail while the bills of parcel's status being changed (New, At warehouse, Packed, Ready for shipment, In delivery, Delivered, Waybill (UIC) received).

Screenshots of the project

Business parameters

Key challenges

Logistics planning system was designed to cardinally better the interaction coordination between the different companies' employees, which participate in the forming, processing and delivery orders for the companies' dealers, and also to afford the company's dealers online access to information on their orders' progress - from the order's reception to the cargo transfer to dealer.

The prime objects also are:

to give logisticians, forwarders and account managers of the company absolute control over the formation and delivery of orders;

to achieve a reduction processing time and delivery of orders;

to provide company's logisticians with formal metrics for monitoring the quality of services provided by contractors - companies that provide storage and forwarding services;

to ensure the protection of the sensitive dealer information from threats existing in the Internet.

Customer benefits

As the result of the "Logistics Management" online application implementation, the company gains the next preferences:

Facility of the company's logistics functioning in the 24/7 mode.

Centralized storage and display of all logistical information on orders, generated from order management systems, warehouse management systems and support systems of the forward delivery.

Ability to control and obtain statistical information on the processes of processing and delivery of orders in several sections.

Reduction of time on tasks of control and ensuring the delivery of orders for company's employess.